Bakari Sellers

Bakari Sellers (18 September 1984-) was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2006 to 2014, preceding Justin Bamberg.

Biography
Bakari Sellers was born on 18 September 1984 in Denmark, South Carolina to a family of Episcopalian Christian African-Americans. Sellers was an alumnus of Morehouse College, and he was the son of Civil Rights activist Cleveland Sellers. From 2006 to 2014 he was in the state's House of Representatives, and he gave up his seat for a failed attempt to become Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina. In 2016, Sellers announced his support for Hillary Clinton as the US Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States.